Onstage version of Steinbeck's classic reminds that life hasn't improved for many since Depression

John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Grapes of Wrath,
is a grim recounting of a Depression-era family of Oklahoma
sharecroppers driven from home by ecological and economic disasters. In
the late 1980s theater artist Frank Galati adapted it into a powerful
stage production, one you can see throughout April at Cincinnati
Shakespeare Company. It’s a downer of a story, but definitely worth
seeing.